I agree with this very simple rule:
source: Free Your Mind and Think
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Gotten from The Weighty Matters Blog at http://www.weightymatters.ca/
Coco Brooks Pizza has been granted permission from the Calgary Board of Education to take over cafeteria operations at 9 Calgary high schools in a move so staggeringly and mind numbingly stupid that according to this article from the CBC, even the students expressed shock,
"They’ve been promoting healthy food since junior high and then they open a pizza store; it’s weird"Defending the move was Calgary Board of Education's Cathy Faber with the classic, "they also serve salads", argument. Ms Faber calls it a,
"turn around story for us, because we're starting to see with this increased traffic that there's actually a potential for a return on our investment"Because apparently dollars matter more than nutrition and health for the Calgary Board of Education.
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I am reading an enlightening and scary book called "Money-Driven Medicine" by Maggie Mahar. Patient welfare and health are no longer central to healthcare in this country, but money is, which may come as no surprise to anyone. Dollars apparently matter more than nutrition and health in Calgary high schools in the above article, but also more than patient welfare in American Health Care. We spend more on healthcare than any other nation, but we are also the unhealthiest and live the shortest lives of any developed nation. (Research summary via press release is here ),
Every health care consumer needs to be aware of how healthcare decisions are being made. Caveat Emptor; let the buyer beware.
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Here is a related subject from TED Talks on what doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe. Doctors really try, but the information is not there for them.
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